Sentences with phrase «faith and reason today»

Our new column flows out of and replaces our Road from Regensburg column, which began in autumn 2006 shortly after the Pope's speech in Regensburg on the interplay of faith and reason today.

Not exact matches

In Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism: A Call to Action, George Weigel offers a succinct statement of where the war on jihadism stands today, what....

Rather than working to tearing down this wall and making the world a better place, American society and the media continually shore up this separation between «faith» and reason, hence the comparitively sorry state of science and research in our country today.

... reason and faith [must] come together in a new way [if we are to] become capable of that genuine dialogue of cultures and religions so urgently needed today.

«Faith and Reason are the two things that the world needs today more than any other time and it is our duty to provide this need for society.»

Consequently today we shall also have to inquire into Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic reasons for faith in Jesus» (Church in the Power of the Spirit, p. 162).

The reason there are so many false religions and false beliefs in the world today is because all those who are false do not have the one Lord, the one Faith, and the one Baptism.

If strong images of God impassion evangelizers and attract converts today, Stark reasons, such images should also explain the historical appeal of monotheistic faiths.

Whereas «human reason and knowledge» was called very important by 96 percent of UU congregational leaders who took part in the multi-denominational Faith Communities Today (FACT) survey released early this year, the Bible was termed only «somewhat important» by 50 percent and had little or no importance to 48 percent as a source for worship and teaching.

``... The new dialogue between faith and reason, required today, can not happen in the terms and in the ways in which it happened in the past.

Arkoun suggested that the Pope, at Regensburg, had been «right» to affirm that today «an intimate relationship between reason and faith does not exist in Islamic elaboration and expressions», but that it was unfortunate that he had not mentioned the very different situation that prevailed «before the death of the philosopher Averroes in 1198».

Bottom line for me is that there is one and only one reason that I, today, embrace my chrisitan faith, and that is because I believe it to be true.

Some of the great fathers of modern science were Catholic priests — proof that faith and reason can exist in harmony, as they still do today.

Even simple ordinary folk today put reason before faith, unlike before the «enlightenment» when theology was accepted as the «queen of sciences» and science its handmaid.

Coming to Faith has always been a good laugh and really enjoyable, but the real reason we come is the same reason we are all here today: to grow closer to Christ our Lord and help one another to do the same.

In an article titled, Islam Needs an Age of Reason, Muslim writer and author of The Trouble with Islam Today, Irshad Manji, urges Muslims to question the modus operandiof their faith.

He rejects Barth who is described as forfeiting the world as we live in it today (precisely the reason for Altizer's rejection of the theologies of the word), and he rejects also the left - wing Bultmannians who have, he justly remarks, given up the his - torical basis of faith for an idea of authentic existence.

Today's generation of Catholics is being infuenced by a much more nourishing diet than was available in the 1970s, and takes for granted the good things available: the Catechism of the Catholic Church, World Youth Day, St JPII's Theology of the Body, the New Movements, Veritatis Splendor, Benedict XVI's teaching on the relationship between faith and reason, and his emphasis on truth, beauty and a personal encounter with Christ, to name just a few.

Just as the nature of Christ as God and man challenged the full faculties of the faith and reason of Augustine and the Church Fathers, so the nature of Scripture as the Word of God and the word of human authors challenges the full faculties of the faith and reason of evangelical scholars and missionaries today.

«The devastation caused by oil spillage has destroyed many lives and livelihoods and is clearly one of the reasons why many people in that region lost faith in Government and resorted to the many criminal activities we are seeing in the region today.

«The main reason, Your Holiness, of why we are here today, is it is not the business of the church to stray from the field of faith and morals and wander into the playground that is science... it is not the business of the church to pronounce on science.